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The exorbitant cost of bringing a new pharmaceutical product to market in the U.S. is well documented, with estimates as high as 12 years and $11 billion. There are many factors that drive this cost, ... read more

Pittcon®, the world’s largest annual conference
and exposition for laboratory science, is the premier venue for innovations, and the Pittcon Editors’ Awards are all about rewarding those types of ... read more

Quality control (QC) is becoming increasingly important in nucleic acid-based testing. As detection technologies become more and more sensitive, final results are influenced not only by biological ... read more

Data management is the current choke point in many scientific endeavors. New workflows enabled by advances in hardware and software are making big data a reality for many labs and staff. To me, big ... read more

The advent of a new technology often brings far-reaching benefits well beyond the initial perception of its key advantages. Acoustic dispensing, for example, with the ability to have highly ... read more

Soon after the first spectrophotometer was built, the challenge of improving it began. How could we make spectrophotometers better? Could we make them smaller, faster, or perhaps improve the ... read more

Integrated R&D Informatics and Knowledge Management (I&KM) was the title of one of the 15 programs spread over three days at the 20th Molecular Med Tri-Con held February 13–15 at the Moscone Center in... read more

Procedures for nucleic acid and protein quantitation have come a long way in the last three decades. In fact, the analysis of small samples (1–4 µL) is now routine in many life science laboratories. read more

Electronic laboratory notebooks
(ELNs) emerged in the R&D landscape
around 15 years ago with a commendable objective: reduce or eliminate the errors and inefficiencies driven by the use of paper ... read more

The last decade has seen huge advances in biological research. The advent of genomics and proteomics,as well as experimental approaches such as next-generation sequencing and high-throughput screening... read more

Regardless of their area of specialization, today’s biotechnology
companies want to do two things: improve the speed and success of their research efforts and lower the costs involved in doing so. read more